Flickr Fav Tuesday

Food Texture and Structure

Seeing this on my plate last week made me curious what  textures and structures others found on their plates/in their kitchens..? I searched Flickr a bit – quite dangerous to do on an empty stomach!

1. Celestial  2. Cracked Double Fudge Cookie  3. Untitled  4. Untitled

More Flickr Favourites at ArtMind

And now – How to translate it felt?

1 of a 5

Red Plum and Green Apple

nunofelted scarves

fuchsia and black coming soon

Flickr Favourites Tuesday

Shibui

• refers to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty
• to do things beautifully without making them excessive or gaudy
• beautiful by being understated, or by being precisely what it was meant to be and not elaborated upon
• understated elegance, utility (each piece serves an important function), rare beauty, and unobtrusive sophistication

1. Untitled 2. Meeting of the two 3. Shibui street 4. Different

found via Shibui pool on Flickr.

More  on Shibui here, here (there  are some very interesting discussions too).

I can’t stop thinking about the meaning of this word. New to me,  so close to my aesthetics.

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Try it!

Although the instructions on making a paper/origami gift box look a bit long and complicated, it is faster to make a box then to read them – I think!

Mitsy from ArtMind, who regularly posts tutorials  (check the toolbar on the right), posted a link to a blog where I first saw them and it seems never bookmarked the link, but I have found quite a few other on-line places, the above one among others. If you google ‘paper gift box’, you will come across more, even some videos.

I was surprised how fast and easy it is to make a great box for small gifts and got quite excited when I imagined all sorts of papers which could be used: maps, pages from bigger old books, dictionaries, adverts… depending on who is the recipient. Great way to recycle and reuse too.

Now, talking about Mitsy.  I have ordered this adorable bird from her shop, but when the parcel came I couldn’t believe my eyes and kept checking ‘what was it I ordered?’. 

She has included crackeled ceramic buttons, plus some of her beautiful art postcards and a fortune cracker. And the white bird came in the company of the red one

and all beautifully wrapped in handmade boxes.

Thank you, Mitsy, your package made our day – our week I should say. You are such an isnpiration, not only your clean contemporary ceramic art, but also the way you present it on and off-line!!!

What I really love about receiving handmade is the personal touch and also watching our girls how they admire, touch, comment and ask when a parcel like this comes in the post. It is such a difference to the world of pink sparkly plastic it often falls on them in the shops…

Week’s Production

in a minimal understated elegant classic look

Clouds, Felt Scarf

Cinderella, Felt Cape

Growth

squash

what's next?

Trail, Flickr favourites Tuesday

Trail

1. The Trail….    2. Winter Sky     3. Winter Trail    4. Winter Trail

I was very inspired by the first photo, so I looked for more trails…

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Happiness

 is a cup of hot tea and a good book or two which came in the post lately (chocolate is eaten already)

it is felted, but not a scarf, what is it?

texture - detail

Shrug, handfelted and naturally dyed

Happiness

January is not an easy month, the business and exciment of Christmas is long gone, the days are still so very short and rather grey and we have got still few months of cold weather ahead. Plus illnesses, sicknesses and bugs… I would like to spread my wings a bit, spend more time at my sewing machine, take this class and play with my camera capturing little things which bring happiness to my daily life.

Here is the first one

a flower pot I got from my dear friend whom I don’t see as often as I used to or as I would like to… I just love watching how the leaves are getting bigger every day plus their fresh green colour is very energizing.